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This article, entitled The Aesthetic and the Linguistic Theories of the Comic (A Synthetic Approach), aims to present the main theories of the comic and of the comic of language, elaborated from antiquity until contemporaneity. These theories are mainly aesthetic and linguistic, but they also contain elements of psychology, anthropology, philosophy. A main feature of the comic is the contrast, fact revealed by the intellectualist theories (Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer); in the conception of Th. Ribot, these theories are opposed to the moral ones (asserting that laughter is associated with a feeling of superiority – Aristotel, Hobbes). This contrast can be established between essence and appearance, between mechanical and living (Henri Bergson), between purpose and means (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel), etc. As far as the linguistic theories are concerned, the article refers to theoreticians like Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca.

Keywords: theory of language, comic, contrast